DETROIT Like any other player wanting to make a major leagueteam, Steve Carlton went through a tryout Sunday at Comiskey Park.Except it was no usual tryout.
"I caught him," said Tom Haller, who caught 1,200 major leaguegames.
How many guys have a team's general manager catch a tryout?
"I was in bermuda shorts and he was in bermuda shorts and he hadon street socks," Haller said. "It was real back-to-the-sandlots."
Carlton didn't try to throw hard but he impressed Haller enoughthat the Sox signed him yesterday.
"I was pleased with what I saw," Haller said. "He had fullextension on his arm. He was flipping the ball free and easy.
"He pitched for a while and then we played long toss for a fewminutes. He looked healthy to me."
Ironically, Haller is a former general manager at San Francisco,which released Carlton last week.
And when Carlton arrived at the team's hotel in suburban Detroityesterday, he took Haller's room.
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